Midwest?

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

>Homer Davenport's breeding program in the Midwest..

Umm, Homer Davenport's farm was in  New Jersey; his partner Peter Bradley
was in Hingham, MA. Perhaps you're thinking of Craver Farms in
Illinois--but that was well after the early part of this century.
                --CMNewell, DVM
(with Davenports in Massachusetts...)